Remove comment spam on localize.drupal.org

Created on 27 May 2023, over 1 year ago
Updated 1 February 2024, 10 months ago

Problem/Motivation

Today, I noticed a lot of spam in the translation group boards on localize.drupal.org. All the spam is in comments (and there is a lot of them).

There are actually too many to list.

Tons of advertisements for prostitution and gambling services does not reflect well on the Drupal community.

Searching the issue queue, I discovered that this is not a new problem – 38 issues so far.

Now that πŸ“Œ [Spam fight] Allow only confirmed accounts to post comments Fixed is fixed, very little new comment spam shall be posted, but we still need to clean out existing comment spam.

Steps to reproduce

One can find a lot of example with these obvious Google searches:

Proposed resolution

Somebody with site moderator permissions on localize.drupal.org must go through the comments and delete all spam.

Remaining tasks

Find someone who can do, it and do it

πŸ“Œ Task
Status

Fixed

Version

1.0

Component

Spam

Created by

πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄Norway gisle Norway

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